zguide examples link to everything under $LIBDIR/*.a about zguide

[hintjens]

Can be you be more precise about what chunk you removed? Not clear from your comment. Thanks.

[thompsa]

Please see the diff here, I have removed the block that builds the $LIBLIST string by iterating $LOCALLIBDIR/lib.a and $LIBDIR/lib*.a.

http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/zguide.diff

[hintjens]

OK... building the list of libraries to link against is what lets you do things like

c -l someprog

without specifying the libraries one by one. For the Guide examples, you need at least libzmq, and for many, libczmq as well. If you don't want 'c' to search /usr/local/lib, set LIBDIR to something else. There's no benefit in removing this code. The LIBDIR variable is there for precisely this reason, auto-searching that directory.

Hope this clarifies it. I'm closing this issue.